I jumped on a 47,500 mile, one owner trade-in at Toyota of Poway (San Diego) after the '07 spec.B (42k miles) deal at Lithia Subaru Oregon City fell through, I was informed a local acquired it via trade-in of their 2012 WRX.

I live in SF Bay Area and booked a flight to Long Beach and my friend that lives nearby in Gardena picked me up drove me down to San Diego. I arrived on Dec. 16th at around 11:00 am. I was pleasantly surprised there was an SPT CAI and SPT CBE (nice unexpected bonus). The car was Q-Certified with a 1 yr/100k Powertrain warranty.

Wow! Nice that yours has low miles. Yes, ever since they became available in the US, I wanted to get one, but I couldn't decide to sell my '03 WRX, but turned out the timing was right and was able to get it.

Yes, the sound with this is very nice, my friend said I have version 2 of the SPT CBE.

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Originally Posted by LosAngelesLGT

SPT CAI on the other hand... (kind of a dog honestly, I'd much rather have oem airbox)

Really?! Based on dyno, WOM, or just general consensus? One thing is, it seems to not be placed in the ideal area, and I also noticed it doesn't have the metal shield to separate the engine area from the filter, so it's picking up heat from the engine. I saw someone add and extra pipe to put the filter lower down in the fender well, but it may also affect the performance of it.

Really?! Based on dyno, WOM, or just general consensus? One thing is, it seems to not be placed in the ideal area, and I also noticed it doesn't have the metal shield to separate the engine area from the filter, so it's picking up heat from the engine. I saw someone add and extra pipe to put the filter lower down in the fender well, but it may also affect the performance of it.

The SPT intake is unstable, hard to tune and can cause lean conditions (BAD!!!) without a tune. I wouldn't want it on my either of my cars. The OEM airbox is great till low 300whp or roughly 120whp more than stock. Had a K&N that was great till I needed bigger. Will never stray from OEM airbox on the OBXT.